Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

H. O..SHELTON.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 357,045. Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

II III UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. SHELTON, OF NEV V HAVEN CONNECTICUT.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

EaPECIPICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,045, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed May 10, 1886. Serial No. 201,693. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY O. SHELToN, residing at New Haven, in the county of N ew- Haven and State ofOonnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in clothes-driers, the object being to produce a cheap, durable, compact, convenient,,and ornamental article.

. With these ends in View my invention consists in a clothes-drier having certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims. p

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clothcsdrier embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a broken sectional view thereof, showing an arm in its suspended or retired position; and Fig. 3 is asimilar View showing an arm in its horizontal or operative position.

The body A of the device may be of any approved construction and design, and is pr0- vided with screw-holes B, adapting it to be attached to a wall or other surface. A frame, 0, bowed outward and having its opposite ends supported by the body A, aforesaid, is provided with a horizontal series of verticallyelongated slots, D, and upon its inner face with shoulders E and F, respectively located in line with the upper and lower walls of the said slots, and the lower shoulder, F, having its inner face beveled, as at G, on a slant to ward the lower outer edge of the frame.

The arms H are oblong in cross-section, in which they conform to the slots D, and have at their inner ends one square corner, I, and one rounded corner, J, as shown. A metallic hook consisting of the parts K and L, at a right angle with each other, and the inwardly-bent end M, forming a continuation of the saidpart L, is secured by screws a a through its part K to that edge of each arm which is on the side of the square corner thereof, while a check, N, formed integral with or secured to the arm, is located upon its opposite edge and adjacent to its rounded corner.

Under the above described construction each arm is independently removable from the frame, so that any number or all of them may be employed, as may be desired. When not in use, they are vertically suspended from the frame, as shown by Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. In this position their inner ends are loshoulder, after which they may be removed.

To adjust them'for use, they are removedivfrom the frame and reversed edge for edge, and their inner ends again introduced into the slots, for which purpose their outer ends must be sufficiently elevated to permit'their hooks to pass the upper wallsof the slots when they are carried inward until the hooks pass the inner edge of the upper shoulder of the frame, after which they are lowered to permit their checks to e11- gage with the outerface of the frame at a point adjacent to and below the lower walls of the slots. Their opposite edges, protected by the parts K of the hooks, such parts bearing against the upper walls of the slots and the lower face of the upper shoulder, then divide the strainim posed upon their outer ends with the checks and the hooks which rest against the rear face of the said shoulder. To remove the arms from the described adjustment, their outer ends are lifted, this being made'possible by their rounded corners, until the bent ends of the hooks are depressed to the level of the upper walls of the slots, when the arms are drawn away from the frame.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A clothesdrier having a body, a bowed frame supported thereby and provided with vertical oblong slots, and upon its inner face with an upper and a lower shoulder, respectivelylocated in line with the upper and lower the frame for vertically suspending the arms therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. A clothes-drier having a body, a. bowed frame supported thereby and provided with vertical oblong slots, and upon its inner face with shou1ders,respeoti vely located in line with the upper and lower walls of such slots, the inner face of the lower shoulder being beveled on a. slant toward the lower outer edge of the frame, and arms having their inner ends pro vided with hooks bent for engagement with the beveled face of such lower shoulder, sub stantially as set forth.

3. A clothes-drier having a body, a bowed frame supported thereby and provided with vertical oblong slots, and upon its inner face 

